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Google + Quickoffice = get more done anytime, anywhere — We're happy to announce that we have acquired Quickoffice, a leader in office productivity solutions. — Today, consumers, businesses and schools use Google Apps to get stuff done from anywhere, with anyone and on any device.

Some Perspective — I don't disagree with PG when he says that Facebook's IPO performance (or lack thereof) has the potential to impact valuations in startup land. I think it will be particularly impactful on the late stage and secondary markets where most of the IPO valuation speculation is happening.

Face To Face: How Airtime Will Re-Humanize The Internet — One minute into using Airtime I was laughing with someone I'd never met. That's something special when despite all the asynchronous connection, the Internet threatens to make us feel lonely. On Airtime, you experience together thanks …

In Video Chat Reboot, Nudists Need Not Apply — In 2009 a Russian teenager named Andrey Ternovskiy introduced an online video service called Chatroulette, which allowed perfect strangers to meet face to face over the Web. Its cleverest feature was the “next” button—a way for users to dump …

Facebook comments, ads don't sway most users: poll — (Reuters) - Four out of five Facebook Inc users have never bought a product or service as a result of advertising or comments on the social network site, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows, the latest sign that much more needs to be done to turn …

R.I.P. Zune — Microsoft is sending Zune to the pasture where Microsoft brands go to die. It's the end of the road for a name that once symbolized Microsoft's grand plans to curb Apple's entertainment ambitions. — In a flurry of announcements that Microsoft made Monday at the E3 games conference …

Apple and Google Expand Their Battle to Mobile Maps — Google's Eric Schmidt, left, and Apple's Steve Jobs, right, in 2008. The relationship deteriorated as their companies competed. — Since they got together in 2007, the iPhone and Google Maps have seemed like ideal digital bedfellows.

Apple Denied Ban On Samsung Tablet Computer Sales In U.S. — Apple Inc. (AAPL) was denied its renewed request for a ban on U.S. sales of Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer while the case is still before a federal court of appeals. — U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose …

100,000 apps published to Windows Phone Marketplace — More than 100,000 apps have now been published in the Windows Phone Marketplace and new content is currently being added at the rate of 313 apps per day. At the time of writing, 100,145 apps have been published.

Rethinking Privacy in an Era of Big Data — Some years ago an engineer at Google told me why Google wasn't collecting information linked to people's names. “We don't want the name. The name is noise.” There was enough information in Google's large database of search queries, location …

Microsoft SmartGlass: Xbox Live Companion on steroids? — As many of my readers know, I'm not a video game fan, nor I am I a big TV fan. So sitting virtually through a two-hour E3 keynote address, chock-full of video game first-person-shooter previews...kill me now (pun intended).